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	<h1>About The Bioventurist</h1>
	
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The biotechnology industry is particularly complex. Science, business, technology, and government all 
play a hand in shaping the industry and the successes or failures of any single advance. 
Strong interdependent relationships exist between biotechnology stakeholders and between the products involved. 
New companies, technologies, and scientific discoveries continuously emerge creating a dynamic and fluid industry landscape.
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The BioVenturist's Mission is to create an open source market and technology research platform that focuses on 
managing this complexity. We believe the dynamic industry landscape cannot be efficiently understood with the 
available tools, and decision makers are limited in their ability to be well informed. To address these issues, 
we take a technology-enhanced community-driven approach. We build novel tools for managing this complexity and 
allow the community to use them to map the industry. This approach is designed to enable rapid, distributed, 
organic, community-directed growth while at the same time producing a queriable, structured collection of knowledge.
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Our platform relies on <a href="http://bioventurist.freebase.com"target="_blank">Freebase </a>  technology to organize 
the knowledge represented on the site. Freebase allows for highly structured data that allows for the faithful and efficient delineation of complex 
relationships as well as straightforward integration of data from multiple sources. .
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	<h1>Our Resources Are Useful To</h1>
	
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<li>entrepreneurs involved in new technologies</li>
<li>investors that are evaluating technologies</li>
<li>business developers who are planning company directions</li>
<li>technology transfer officers gaging emerging technologies</li>
<li>academics who are interested in commercialization</li>
<li>employees searching for new areas of interest</li>
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